English Word-based analysis

Home Keys Analysis

The Home Keys for this layout are shown with red dots in the image above, giving the following letters:

aehinrst

Home key bigrams, trigrams, quadgrams and common words

Scores are based on which fingers are used for the top 20 bigrams, trigrams and quadgrams, and top 30 common words, with the scores
weighted by strength of finger used, and frequency of occurance of the text.

Metric

Rank

Weighted score

Components handled and not handled

Bigrams

122

56.92 / 90.17

th he in er an re en at ha it is hi es nd on ou ed to or ng

Trigrams

118

19.72 / 39.68

the her hat his tha ere ent ter ith thi and ing for ion was you ver all wit tio

Quadgrams

109

5.28 / 15.88

that ther here this thin with tion ould ight have hich whic they atio ever from ough were hing ment

Common words

121

49.18 / 84.45

the a in is that he it as at his are this an has of and to for was on with by be from I but have not they or

Home Key letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

hieastnr

2779

16

heathenishnesses

Word count

Word length

Easyblock Analysis

The typical Easyblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Easyblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

yYoOlLpPiIeEaAsStTnNgG

11059

17

passionlessnesses

Word count

Word length

Homeblock Analysis

The typical Homeblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Homeblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

yYoOcClLpPiIeEaAsStTnNgGmMbB

32464

20

palaeoclimatologists

Word count

Word length

Angle Mod Homeblock Analysis

The typical Angle Mod Homeblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Angle mod Homeblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

yYoOcClLpPiIeEaAsStTnNjJgGmMbB

33340

20

palaeoclimatologists

Word count

Word length

One-handed words Analysis

This looks at how many words can be typed with only left or right hand. We want these numbers to be low.
This metric was done "strictly" ... shifted or AltGr letters were only included if Shift or AltGr was on the same hand.
Note: we exclude the Dvorak one-handed layouts comparison, since clearly by design they can type every possible word with one hand.

Left hand letters

Left words

Longest left word

Left example

Right hand letters

Right words

Longest right word

Right example

Total

kKyYoOhHiIeEaAuUjJ

216

8

Khoikhoi

fFcClLpPqQzZdDsStTnNrRvVwWgGmMbBxX

286

5

RSFSR

502

Left hand

Right hand

Word count

Word length

Word length

SameFinger Bigrams

This is a weighted analysis of same-finger usage.

The probability that a letter will follow another given letter
is used to evaluate layouts by which letters pairs are on the same fingers. We multiply this figure by the percentage frequency of the first letter, in English.
We add the probabilities in both directions, for example "er" and "re".

There are some exceptions: We only look at lower case, and if the second letter is on the same key as the first, we ignore that pair.

The idea is to see how much a finger has to fly around, and if the two letters are on the same key (as in the split-case layouts) then it doesn't
have to fly between them.

The metric does not measure how far the finger has to fly, just that it has to. I'll look at adding distance, row jumps, inward rolls, outward rolls, to this metric if possible.

Finger

Letters

Score

Left pinky

'khj'

0.2231

Left ring

'yi'

2.6832

Left middle

'oe'

7.8385

Left index

'au'

17.3237

Left thumb

'⍽'

0

Right thumb

''

0

Right index

'fcdswg'

38.4037

Right middle

'ltm'

22.5158

Right ring

'pnb'

1.055

Right pinky

'qzrvx'

4.6527

Both thumbs

''

0

Total

94.7

Word metric comparisons

Metric

Lowest

Lowest score

alice-7499-WIP.en.ansi score

Highest

Highest score

Home keys

abcdef.en.ansi

3

2779

essie-2.en.matrix

174012

Easyblock

qwerty-rehomed.en.ansi

100

11059

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

189738

Homeblock

qwerty-typewriter.en.ansi

1562

32464

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

273265

Angle mod Homeblock

alphametric.en.ansi

1354

33340

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

273265

Left hand words

qgmlwy.en.ergolinear

34

216

tnwmlc.en.ansi

22157

Right hand words

essie-3.en.ergolinear

26

286

reverse-qwerty.en.ansi

14771

Total single handed

essie-3.en.ergolinear

158

502

tnwmlc.en.ansi

22301

Average single handed

essie-3.en.ergolinear

79

251

tnwmlc.en.ansi

11150.5

Same finger bigrams

seelpy-1.en.ergolinear

8.01

94.7

mcgunnigle-peoples.en.ansi

1757.11

Fraser Street analysis

"Fraser Street" (thanks Shai) is a specially-crafted text in which most of the words are typed with only the left hand, on the QWERTY layout.
It was designed to highlight how much better the Dvorak layout is at hand alternation.
We ignore spaces and punctuation.

Left letters

Right letters

Needs both hands

kKyYoOhHiIeEaAuUjJ

fFcClLpPqQzZdDsStTnNrRvVwWgGmMbBxX

Fraser Street was in West Everett. Westward of Fraser Street was the great vast sea.Awed, we gazed seawards,attracted by crested waves which raced and ebbed. Children were scattered on the beachedged and strewed with seaweed. They waded in water as the sea surged in and retreated. They bagged crabs as eagerlyas beavers saw trees. Brave crews, seafarers in fact, steered sea craft far away. The siteof Fraser Street was not overrated.

Few vegetated in Fraser Street. Nobody wasted timeabed."Acts test the breed," was ever the sacred adage. Varied crafts and trades were represented. There was a caterer,a barber,a weaver,a cabaret,and a garage.Attracted, we started to see several scenes. We were greeted as friends.

The barber catered toa varied trade, representing diverse careers and different creeds. Saturday drew the best crowd.All were seated, relaxed,awareof fewer cares, less fagged. There we saw a few starved tattered beggars who bragged of "bracers" served at cafes after a wee meal of beef stew and cabbage.A better fare was reserved for those reared on earth's greater awards.

Fraser Street summary

Left letters typed

367

Right letters typed

514

Needs both hands

0

Total letters typed

881

Switches

609

Hand balance

41.66 : 0.00 : 58.34

Typing lessons

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